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Marathon Bomber Appeals Conviction: Do His Lawyers Know Something we don't?

• https://www.lewrockwell.com, By James Henry

While the appeal itself is unsurprising—a lengthy and convoluted appeals process is standard in capital cases like this one—the defense's claim of "evidentiary insufficiency" calls attention to what has been a seemingly strange defense strategy.

"Evidentiary insufficiency" is, in fact, an apt description of the evidence presented at the weeks-long trial. Remember all the hype about "eureka moments" and "damning" videos that turned out to be… not so much.

(1)  It may be true that Dzhokhar dropped his backpack at the finish line as advertised. But you can't actually see that in the surveillance footage.

(2) The "daring escape" video of the brothers' carjacking victim, known as "Danny," appears to     contradict key details about the carjacking story as presented to the media and in court. These       include: Who was sitting where in the SUV? "Danny" claimed that he was in the front passenger seat while Dzhokhar was sitting in the back.


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